...while labor for customizing software was not subject to sales tax, the base price of software sold was...

So your solution, which begins as a $1 peice of 'standard' code that you sell:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
#
# Script Solutions, INC.

print "Hello, World!";

...can then be 'customized', for any fee, tax-free. Right?

This is the same kind of crap that At&t told me when I got the cable modem from them. It is just a standard CYA so they don't get accused for any illicit actions of its users.

You can be sure they will be port scanning you as well to see if you are running any news servers and such.

good fun,
--vxd